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Major IT outage at Europe's largest caravan and RV club makes for not-so-happy campers

Wed, 24/01/2024 - 5:30pm
1 million members still searching for answers as IT issues floor primary digital services

Updated  The UK's Caravan and Motorhome Club (CAMC) is battling a suspected cyberattack with members reporting widespread IT outages for the past five days.…

eBay tells 1,000 employees their days at company are numbered

Wed, 24/01/2024 - 4:50pm
9% of workforce getting boot after execs hired too many during pandemic

Tat bazaar eBay is laying off 1,000 employees, or 9 percent of the workforce, claiming that general hiring and overhead costs are outpacing the wider commercial growth of the company.…

US govt, tech sector team up to get academia making its own next-gen AI models

Wed, 24/01/2024 - 4:00pm
Launch National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource to help non-corporate boffins play catch-up

The US National Science Foundation has hooked up with tech companies to help academics secure computing power, data, and more to build their own AI models.…

HPE's updated Spaceborne Computer-2 ready to hitch another ride to the ISS

Wed, 24/01/2024 - 3:30pm
How's low Earth orbit for the edge?

An updated version of HPE's Spaceborne Computer-2 is set to launch to the International Space Station (ISS) this week.…

Using GoAnywhere MFT for file transfers? Patch now – an exploit's out for a critical bug

Wed, 24/01/2024 - 3:04pm
Ancient path traversal exploit offers remote attackers admin access

Security experts are wasting no time in publishing working exploits for a critical vulnerability in Fortra GoAnywhere MFT, which was publicly disclosed just over a day ago.…

Microsoft admits issues with Windows 10 patch almost 2 months after release

Wed, 24/01/2024 - 2:30pm
Problematic Microsoft Edge package could affect System Preparation Tool

Microsoft is confirming that an issue with update KB5032278, which brought Copilot to Windows 10 machines at the end of 2023, could throw up a system preparation tool error.…

ASML orders boom but export restrictions could hamper growth

Wed, 24/01/2024 - 2:14pm
Extremely key kitmaker does predict good times in 2025, though

Chipmaking kit maker ASML grew 30 percent last year and the order book more than tripled in calendar Q4 as customers rushed to invest in new tools - yet the business remains cautious for 2024 amid stringent export restrictions.…

€2B SAP restructure program will affect 8,000 roles

Wed, 24/01/2024 - 1:37pm
Plans announced as profits fall and revenues rise

German software giant SAP has announced a restructuring program likely to hit 8,000 jobs worldwide.…

Microsoft's plucky challengers, Bing and Edge, might gain DMA exemptions

Wed, 24/01/2024 - 1:09pm
You have to be dominant to draw attention of the regulators, or so say sources

Microsoft has issued a Windows 10 patch to address EU regulators' concerns about its ubiquitous OS as industry chatter swirls around Edge and Bing potentially dodging antitrust watchdogs due to a lack of dominance.…

'Birthplace of Amazon' on the market for $2.28M

Wed, 24/01/2024 - 12:30pm
'Affordable' for the neighborhood

With an interior decked out in sterile tones of corporate gray, the 1,540 sq ft rental bungalow at 10704 NE 28th St in Bellevue, Washington, is rather unremarkable compared to the imposing facades of its neighboring properties.…

Tech world won't have long to fall in line when EU signs off on AI Act

Wed, 24/01/2024 - 11:46am
Did your org already start baking AI into systems? Watch out. Staggered timetable for compliance expected after draft leaked

Users and builders of AI systems face a race against time to comply with incoming European legislation if lawmakers continue on their current trajectory.…

What Microsoft's latest email breach says about this IT security heavyweight

Wed, 24/01/2024 - 11:02am
Senator Wyden tells The Reg this latest infosec lapse is 'inexcusable'

Comment  For most organizations – especially security vendors – disclosing a corporate email breach, in which executives' internal messages and attachments were stolen, would noticeably ding their stock prices.…

Does AI give InfiniBand a moment to shine? Or will Ethernet hold the line?

Wed, 24/01/2024 - 10:15am
You could go all-in on Nvidia for the lower latency. Or tough it out with less exotic kit and tolerate slower training

Growing demand for AI will see the datacenter switching market grow by 50 percent, according to Dell'Oro analyst Sameh Boujelbene, who has also predicted considerable innovation in the switching arena.…

The rise and fall of the standard user interface

Wed, 24/01/2024 - 9:30am
IBM's SAA and CUA brought harmony to software design… until everyone forgot

Retro Tech Week  In the early days of microcomputers, everyone just invented their own user interfaces, until an Apple-influenced IBM standard brought about harmony. Then, sadly, the world forgot.…

Apple has botched 3D for decades. So good luck with the Vision Pro, Tim

Wed, 24/01/2024 - 8:31am
It looks like a fine product, but it's the ecoystem that will determine success

Column  As we wait for Apple’s Vision Pro to arrive after pre-orders opened in early January, complete with a promise of 'spatial computing' perfected, Cupertino’s spotty history in the third dimension offers a useful counterweight to the reality distortion field accompanying the device’s launch.…

Think tank warns North Korea uses AI for battle planning, maybe using cloudy resources

Wed, 24/01/2024 - 8:02am
Calls for clouds, and scientists, to take care they're not aiding Pyongyang

North Korea is investing in its AI capacity, and a think tank has called on cloud computing service providers to do more to ensure the hermit kingdom can’t rent the infrastructure it needs to advance its capabilities.…

COVID-19 test lab accused of exposing 1.3 million patient records to open internet

Wed, 24/01/2024 - 7:28am
Now that's a Dutch crunch

A password-less database containing an estimated 1.3 million sets of Dutch COVID-19 testing records was left exposed to the open internet, and it's not clear if anyone is taking responsibility.…

GCHQ's NCSC warns of 'realistic possibility' AI will help state-backed malware evade detection

Wed, 24/01/2024 - 6:26am
That means Brit spies want the ability to do exactly that, huh?

The idea that AI could generate super-potent and undetectable malware has been bandied about for years – and also already debunked. However, an article published today by the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) suggests there is a "realistic possibility" that by 2025, the most sophisticated attackers’ tools will improve markedly thanks to AI models informed by data describing successful cyber-hits.…

Amid Broadcom's subscription push, VMware killed a SaaS product

Wed, 24/01/2024 - 5:31am
Another 50-plus products also binned in move to big bundles

Broadcom has killed off a VMware software-as-a-service product, despite also moving the virtualization giant's other wares to subscription-only licenses – the sort of arrangement at which SaaS excels.…

Taiwan connects its first home-grown quantum computer to the internet

Wed, 24/01/2024 - 4:33am
Five mighty qubits, delivered before deadline, but they won’t stop imports of alternatives

Taiwanese research institute Academia Sinica has connected a home-brew quantum computer to the internet.…